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| June 21, 2025 | Linoleic Acid Is Stealing Your Oxygen | Here’s the big theory. Desaturase and cytochrome P450 enzymes in the ER compete for oxygen … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| June 15, 2025 | Can You Stand In The Same Cell Membrane Twice? | The fundamental biological role of linoleic acid is to act as an electron sink for … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| June 15, 2025 | PPARa Is A Filter | I pace while I think. I’ve spent hours and days wandering around just thinking: what … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| June 14, 2025 | Oxidative Fermentation Of Linoleic Acid Allows Glycolysis in Animals | Let’s go back to our copepod friend. The one who swam down to the Oxygen … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| June 14, 2025 | NADPH Is For Growth; Throw Out Your Antioxidants | NADH and NADPH are electron carriers. They are the “wires” that conduct electrical power through … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| June 8, 2025 | How PUFA Contributes to ROS Production (Part 1) | So we’re getting back to why you shouldn’t eat seed oils. If I tried to … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| June 1, 2025 | How We Handle Hypoxia | Where are we now? We are in a shallow sea. The time is seven hundred … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| May 30, 2025 | Glycolysis And OxPhos | Cells in the first weeks of embryo growth are in a hypoxic enviroment and they … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| May 29, 2025 | Pregnancy Is Hypoxic | When the clever mammals decided to grow the next generation in their placentas (except for … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| May 26, 2025 | Fattening Is About Oxygen | I’m a country boy and I grew up around woodstoves. If you want the fire … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| May 26, 2025 | The Whistle Pig and the Hare: Fattening Is A Biological Choice | In the early spring of 2024 I opened my front door and startled a very … | The Whistle Pig And The Hare |
| July 4, 2024 | Doubly Labelled Water is Less Useful For Weirdos | ExFatLoss recently posted an article where he said that he had taken the “gold standard” … | Intro To Oxidation |
| January 13, 2024 | What Did We Eat? | New year, new me! I think they say that. Anyhoo, there’s been a lot of … | Intro To Oxidation |
| January 3, 2024 | Send Your Metabolism The Right Signal With SEA | Did you know that your body fat composition is a signal to your metabolism? Should … | Intro To Oxidation |
| January 3, 2024 | Videos Mentioned In My Interview With Paul Saladino, MD | Here’s the primer of essential videos that Paul and I discussed. The Emergence Diet In … | Intro To Oxidation |
| December 5, 2023 | How Much Protein Do You Need? | I’ve been advocating reducing protein intake, and particularly reducing consumption of the the branched chain … | Intro To Oxidation |
| November 28, 2023 | Is BCAA-Catabolism The Mechanism Of MCT Oil? | MCT oil has long been associated with weight loss. This is especially true of the … | Intro To Oxidation |
| November 13, 2023 | Human Metabolic Syndrome Resembles Mammalian Torpor (New Evidence) | I’ve argued that obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the human expression of mammalian torpor, … | Intro To Oxidation |
| November 1, 2023 | Scale Receipts: 28 days on The Emergence Diet | So I’ve been promising that I would share my weight progress after I had done … | Intro To Oxidation |
| October 26, 2023 | How I Both Aced and Failed My Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) | I’ve been consuming what I’m now calling the “induction phase” of the Emergence Diet. In … | Intro To Oxidation |
| August 15, 2023 | How To Fatten A Mammal | This video serves as a sort of road map of Fire In A Bottle topics. … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 24, 2023 | Why the Inuit Aren’t in Ketosis: The Redox Apocalypse | Video Summary The Inuit live in the Arctic on the seal blubber. This would be … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 18, 2023 | Our Livers SHRED omega 3 PUFA. For better or for worse. | Video Link First, tl;dw Summary Article Below Summary Omega 3 PUFA activate PPAR alpha, which … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 11, 2023 | Fat Metabolism in Context: PPAR alpha, Saturated Fat and NAD+ | PPAR alpha is a nuclear receptor that is often said to be crucial for fat … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 4, 2023 | Stearic acid as a signalling molecule: SEA. Stearoylethanolamide. | In the latest video I explain the basics of the ethanolamide system. You may have … | Intro To Oxidation |
| May 21, 2023 | The History of Bodyfat Composition | This is a summary of the latest video: We are not made the same as … | Obesity Explained |
| May 14, 2023 | List of Branched Chain Amino Acids as Percent of Calories | This is the list of foods sorted by percentage of calories supplied by branched chain … | Intro To Oxidation |
| April 16, 2023 | The Emergence Diet : Get Out of Torpor! | In this video I ask how mammals get out of torpor. Grizzly bears are the … | Intro To Oxidation |
| March 26, 2023 | How Olive Oil Makes You Fat | This post serves as a summary of the key points of my video, “How Olive … | Intro To Oxidation |
| February 26, 2023 | Wapato: The human history of starchy tubers | I made this video to push back on the idea that starchy tubers are “fallback … | Intro To Oxidation |
| February 17, 2023 | Turnips green, buttermilk and potatoes. Obesity Explained episodes 8 and 9. | Obesity explained episoeds 8 and 9 are out. They are based on a trio of … | Intro To Oxidation |
| February 14, 2023 | The 1000 foods highest and lowest in linoleic acid (And folate and B12) | Food Reference Lists: Linoleic Acid. Highest and lowest foods, percent of calories. Folate. Highest foods … | Intro To Oxidation |
| February 13, 2023 | The top foods in Vitamin B6 per Calorie | The list is here! I just fired up a database on the google cloud and … | Intro To Oxidation |
| January 19, 2023 | The AhR Actively Manages the Gut Microbiome for Fatness | People think about the gut microbiome as something that is passively managed. Eat some fiber … | Obesity Explained |
| January 15, 2023 | Torpor, Circadin Rhythms and the AhR: Obesity Explained, Episode 4 | Episode 4 of Obesity Explained is out! Watch The Video! Video Summary It’s January. Days … | Obesity Explained |
| December 23, 2022 | Saturated Fat is in the Eye of the Beholder; also Ants and Torpor | I wanted to make a quick post to point out a real bias in the … | Livestock Agriculture |
| November 16, 2022 | Save Thirty Bucks on Low-PUFA Pork! Pork without seed oils. | Over at Firebrand Meats I sell heirloom berkshire pork that has been raised on a … | Intro To Oxidation |
| November 8, 2022 | Oxidized Seed Oils Cause Diabetes | This paper from Finland is literally the greatest nutrition paper I’ve ever seen. (Lankinen, 2019) … | Intro To Oxidation |
| November 7, 2022 | The Truth About Seed Oil in Restaurant Fryers! | By popular demand! This is clipped from my recent longer video Seed Oil and Fryer … | Intro To Oxidation |
| November 4, 2022 | Seed Oil and Fryer Oil Reality Video. D6D. | I made this video about the realities of seed oils and fryer oils. This started … | Intro To Oxidation |
| October 13, 2022 | Succinate Increases Athletic Performance By Oxidizing NADH | When I first wrote about the benefits of supplementing with succinate, most of the data … | The Onion |
| September 28, 2022 | The Onion Of Life. An Evolution Based Framework for Interpreting Molecular Biology (Part 1) | The job of molecular biologists – the ones who discover things like leptin and AMPK … | The Onion |
| September 14, 2022 | Antioxidants Cause Inflammation | The human body has multiple ways of eliminating the hydrogen peroxide that is generated during … | Reductive Stress |
| September 6, 2022 | Electrons-In, Electrons-Out | People talk about calories-in, calories-out. It is the idea that weight will be gained if … | Reductive Stress |
| September 6, 2022 | Lioleic Acid Effects From Acorn Grazed Hogs | I was responding to an email from someone who grazes hogs in a oak forest. … | Livestock Agriculture |
| September 1, 2022 | New Video: Reductive Stress Causes Oxidative Stress | This video is a supplement to the post Reductive Stress Causes Oxidative Stress (Take 2). … | Intro To Oxidation |
| August 31, 2022 | Reductive Stress Causes Oxidative Stress (Take 2) | With every new paper that comes out it becomes clearer that reductive stress is the … | Reductive Stress |
| August 24, 2022 | Sustainable Pork and Metabolic Health in China, featuring Coprophagy: Livestock Agriculture, Part 1 | Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed that there is controversy surrounding … | Livestock Agriculture |
| August 9, 2022 | Battling Reductive Stress: Pyruvate and L-Carnitine | At the end of my series on how seed oils cause reductive stress, I said … | Intro To Oxidation |
| August 2, 2022 | Reductive Stress Gives You The Munchies by Activating D6D | This post comes out a recent conversation I had with Tucker Goodrich and David Gornoski … | Reductive Stress |
| July 13, 2022 | Reductive stress is the POTENTIAL for oxidative stress | Is it lazy to just post my own tweet and call it an article? You … | Intro To Oxidation |
| July 13, 2022 | Brad chats with Georgi Dinkov | Georgi is a follower of Ray Peat’s ideas and is extending them based on the … | Podcasts, Reductive Stress |
| July 11, 2022 | How Stearic Acid Battles Reductive Stress; The Banana Milkshake Study Redux | Since I published The Croissant Diet there has been much interest in the scientific article … | Reductive Stress |
| June 21, 2022 | PUFA as an obesogen; How Seed Oils Cause Reductive Stress, Part VI | Obesogens are environmental toxins that make you fat. A commonality among them is that they … | Reductive Stress |
| June 17, 2022 | Brad Talks ROS Theory of Obesity, Torpor and Reductive Stress with Kevin Stock | Kevin and I had a great convo about all things FIAB. This is a great … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 16, 2022 | Seed oils make lean people behave like fat people, metabolically speaking; How seed oils cause reductive stress, part V | In this series, I have argued that consuming seed oils causes reductive stress in the … | Reductive Stress |
| June 15, 2022 | Carbon Recycling: What Happens to Seed Oils When You Eat Them? ; How Seed Oils Cause Reductive Stress, Part IV | In this series I’ve been using the analogy of a flooded engine to help to … | Reductive Stress |
| June 14, 2022 | Dietary Linoleic Acid Does Not Reduce Diabetes Risk | Introduction In a recent Twitter thread, Simon Hill, MSc. BSc. tweeted this about a recent … | Reductive Stress |
| June 6, 2022 | Acetylation Turns on Lipogenic Enzymes; How Seed Oils Cause Reductive Stress, Part III | I argued in part II of this series that consumption of unsaturated fats fails to … | Reductive Stress |
| May 31, 2022 | The Mitochondrial Bottleneck as the carburetor screw; How seed oils cause reductive stress, part II | In part I of this series I introduced the analogy of reductive stress as a … | Reductive Stress |
| May 30, 2022 | The Flooded Engine, An Analogy; How Seed Oils Cause Reductive Stress, Part I | I’ve been writing a lot about reductive stress and its role at the heart of … | Reductive Stress |
| April 27, 2022 | CD38 links obesity, bacterial-induced inflammation, and reductive stress | The idea of this series is that the underlying condition that drives obesity forward is … | Reductive Stress |
| April 21, 2022 | The Pro-oxidant Alpha Lipoic Acid makes you lean, Antioxidants make you fat (sometimes) | The WebMD entry on alpha lipoic acid (ALA) begins with, “Alpha-lipoic acid is an antioxidant”. … | Reductive Stress |
| April 19, 2022 | Reductive Stress Makes You Fat | This is another article in my series on reductive stress as a unifying model for … | Intro To Oxidation |
| April 13, 2022 | Reductive Stress Causes Oxidative Stress: Antioxidants, Oxidative Stress and Reductive Stress | Introduction This is the second article in my series about reductive stress. Check out the … | Intro To Oxidation, Reductive Stress |
| April 11, 2022 | PUFA Induced Reductive Stress as a Unifying Mechanism in Obesity | I recently had an informal debate with someone who believes that obesity is caused simply … | Reductive Stress |
| March 10, 2022 | Brad’s Future of Fat Summit presentation is now live! | I want to thank Jeff Nobbs, Dr Anthony Gustin and others for giving me the … | Podcasts |
| March 8, 2022 | Metabolic Rates in the American South in the 1930s: Did Researchers Measure the Origins of the Obesity Epidemic? | There are great tales in the medical literature if you look for them. In the … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| February 24, 2022 | Why Is Obesity Like A Headache? | Brad is on TikTok! Why IS Obesity like a … | Intro To Oxidation |
| February 15, 2022 | The French Obesity Paradox | I’ve recently had several run-ins with people who believe strictly in the calories-in, calories-out hypothesis … | The ROS Theory of Obesity, Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| February 10, 2022 | Pontzer’s Burn and Metabolic Rate Mechanisms | I just finished reading Herman Pontzer’s book Burn. It’s good, I recommend it! I don’t … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| January 27, 2022 | David Rosenberg increased his metabolic rate by 1100 calories per day with alpha-lipoic acid, succinade, sterculia oil and stearic acid. | I was excited when David reached out to me because he is very regimented. He … | Intro To Oxidation |
| January 27, 2022 | FIAB Podcast, Episode 4: Reductive Stress | A Google Scholar search for the phrase “oxidative stress diabetes” currently yields over 500,000 papers, … | Intro To Oxidation |
| January 10, 2022 | Loss of Mitochondrial ROS Production Causes Obesity | Happy New Year! Fire In A Bottle (FIAB) is back! I’m excited for the new … | The ROS Theory of Obesity, Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| December 14, 2021 | Antioxidants Cause Reductive Stress | Oxidants are electron takers. Anti-oxidants are the opposite: electron donors. OILRIG: Oxidation Is Losing, Reduction … | The ROS Theory of Obesity, Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| December 8, 2021 | NAD+, Reductive Stress and the Magic of Superoxide | This is the next in a series of posts I am writing about reductive stress … | Intro To Oxidation |
| November 18, 2021 | Lactate and the Lipoic Acid Flu, An Hypothesis and n=1 | In my last post I recommended a strategy of combining lipoic acid – a natural, … | Intro To Oxidation, Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| October 27, 2021 | Obesity as a Global Succinate Dehydrogenase Activity Deficit – The ROS Theory of Obesity Part III, Part 2 | I’m using the word global to mean “in all tissues of the body” but I’d … | The ROS Theory of Obesity, Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| October 26, 2021 | Sandra’s Story | I told the story of Sandra in Obesity as a Global Succinate Dehydrogenase Activity Deficit. … | Testimonials |
| October 12, 2021 | ROS as a NAD+ Regenerating, Thermogenic Cycle – The ROS Theory of Obesity Part III, Part 1 | On this blog I have argued that: The traditional French diet combining starch and saturated … | The ROS Theory of Obesity, Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| October 4, 2021 | Reduce SIRT1 and AMPK activity with low-fat calorie restriction, Increase them with high-fat feasting! | In the last article we saw that a deficiency in AMPK and SIRT1 activity leads … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| October 1, 2021 | You’re fat because your mitochondrial enzymes are acetylated | I’ve been working on this mega post that was getting too long and complicated. I … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| September 28, 2021 | AMPK Causes Insulin-independent glucose uptake in muscle tissue | The way that insulin decreases blood glucose is by causing the translocation of a glucose … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| September 28, 2021 | “The Fat Pigs”, FIAB Podcast, Episode 2! | Fire In A Bottle, The Podcast episode 2 is out! In this episode I focus … | Podcasts |
| September 24, 2021 | Vitamin D is a nuclear receptor superfamily member that activates AMPK | Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin. When sunshine hits your skin, your body uses the … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| September 17, 2021 | Campari is a dual bile acid receptor agonist that activates AMPK | I am a huge fan of Italian bitter liqueurs. I was first introduced to the … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| September 15, 2021 | AMPK is activated by HIGH cellular energy after a starchy meal | AMPK is a key regulator of metabolic rate and fat burning. The mainline thinking on … | The ROS Theory of Obesity, Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| September 11, 2021 | SCD1 Regulates AMPK and AMPK Regulates SCD1 | So like I was saying, biology is weird. AMPK and SCD1 are a literal teeter … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity, Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| September 1, 2021 | AMPK is Kryptonite to the Nuclear Receptor “Superfamily” | Summary Activating AMPK in the livers of mice prevents diet induced obesity despite higher caloric … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| September 1, 2021 | Announcing Fire In A Bottle, The Podcast! | That’s right, Brad has a podcast now. In the first episode he tells the story … | Podcasts |
| August 31, 2021 | The AhR is the Keymaster to Torpor | My last posts were viewed by some as pessimistic in a “once you’re obese, you … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| August 13, 2021 | Getting Fat Causes You To Overeat | I believe that obesity is a fuel partitioning disorder. I’ve argued that when you pack … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| August 13, 2021 | Brad on The Logos Interviews | Brad discusses The ROS Theory of Obesity, torpid metabolisms, PUFAs in meat and more on … | Podcasts |
| August 12, 2021 | PPAR gamma With Oxidized PUFA is the Gatekeeper to Metabolic Inflexibility | In a recent post I talked about three groups of pigs with differing levels of … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| July 7, 2021 | Brad on Peak Human podcast | Brad talking about the latest Fire In A Bottle concepts with Brian Sanders. We pack … | Podcasts |
| July 7, 2021 | Brad on The Mr. Bill podcast | Mr Bill’s podcast is not a health-based, typically. This is a great starting point if … | Podcasts |
| July 7, 2021 | Brad on The Natural State with Dr Anthony Gustin | This 2 part podcast is comprehensive look at the topics discussed on Fire In A … | Podcasts |
| July 7, 2021 | Brad Talks Torpor with David Gornoski | This is wide-ranging discussion about the ideas discussed on Fire In A Bottle, including torpor, … | Podcasts |
| June 26, 2021 | Accumulating Linoleic Acid Prevents Diabetes | This is from the EPIC Potsdam study in Germany, which looked at the association between … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| June 23, 2021 | Obesity prone pigs go from Normal to Pathological Insulin Sensitivity to Torpor when given enough PUFA | Hap MD asked me if I had any thoughts on Ossabaw pigs. They are interesting … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| June 16, 2021 | This Is How Linoleic Acid Makes You Fat, Leptin Resistant and Torpid | I’ve written a lot about the strong correlation between the Desaturase Index (DI) and human … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| June 14, 2021 | Bio-Hacking Leptin | I mentioned somewhere that I was leptin resistant somewhere and in the comments of the … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| June 10, 2021 | The Cruel Irony of “Eat Less, Move More” | There are many believers in a reductionist calories in, calories out (CICO) view of the … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| June 9, 2021 | Leptin Increase Your Metabolic Rate And Keeps You Lean By Making You Inefficient at Walking | Introduction This is part of my Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony series where I will argue … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| June 4, 2021 | Sterculia Oil Prevents Liver Fat Accumulation and Prevents Insulin Resistance in Fructose-Fed Rats | In the comments of SCD1 CAUSES Humans to Store Fat, David N posted a link … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| June 3, 2021 | David Tillman Shares His Amazing Croissant Diet Story | David has been featured on the blog before under the testimonial David’s Story. He’s lost … | The Croissant Diet |
| May 22, 2021 | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony: SCD1 CAUSES Humans to Store Fat | Introduction My thesis in this series is that humans get fat NOT from sloth and … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| May 22, 2021 | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony Part 1: Americans ate a LOT in 1939 | Introuction to Torpor, Sloth an Gluttony This is the first post in my new “Sloth … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| April 28, 2021 | Female Amazonian forager-horticulturalists have the same metabolic rate as Korean college students. They both eat mostly starch. Their body fat is Saturated. | The title of “High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden” makes … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| April 15, 2021 | Humans and Hibernating Mammals React to The Same Amount of Dietary Linoleic Acid in the Same Way. By Becoming Torpid. | As a biologist, I always think in evolutionary terms. All mammals share a single ancestor … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity, Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| April 14, 2021 | n=1 on Escaping Torpor: Turning off PPAR gamma and turning on Fat Burning | Recently I posted an article recommending combining sterculia oil with berberine and/or fish oil as … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| April 9, 2021 | Metabolic Rates In American Men Plunged Between 1919 and 1987 | Introduction If you follow this blog you probably won’t be SHOCKED that I’m following up … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| March 29, 2021 | Metabolic Rates in American Women Plunged Between 1919 and 1986 | Intro I have suggested that increased consumption of the Omega 6 polyunsatured fat (PUFA) linoleic … | Torpor, Sloth and Gluttony |
| March 20, 2021 | Sterculia Oil: How to Escape Torpor! | Brad’s Daily Recipe Introduction I’d like to reach my target weight this year or next, … | Sterculia Oil, The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| March 20, 2021 | Sterculia Oil: Metabolic Results Number One | Inroduction So I have a fancy metabolic tester to track my metabolic rate. It’s honestly … | Sterculia Oil, The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| March 20, 2021 | Sterculia Oil: Brad’s Blood Numbers and Safety | Study Design I started my sterculia oil (SO) trial with a 16 week n=1 safety … | Sterculia Oil, The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| March 9, 2021 | Are You In Deep Torpor? SCD1 Theory Of Obesity Summary So Far And Hamsters! | Introduction It’s time for the season finale! Next week I will pivot to discussing my … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| March 6, 2021 | Very Long Chain Saturated and Monounsaturated Fats | Overview Very Long Chain Fatty Acids (VLCFA) I’ve become very interested in very long chain … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| March 4, 2021 | Membrane Phospholipid Composition of Different Populations | I’ve been promoting the OmagaQuant complete test as a way to calculate your Desaturase Indix … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| March 3, 2021 | Good PPAR, Bad PPAR | Overview Introduction I introduced PPAR alpha in Dietary Monounsaturated Fat as an altogether good actor, … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| March 1, 2021 | Fat Newborns; Sloth and Gluttony Part 1 | Introduction The most common explanation given for the recent wave of obesity is that “We … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| February 26, 2021 | David’s Story | This is a pretty great testimonial to the potential of The Croissant Diet. David really … | Testimonials |
| February 22, 2021 | Really Good Historical Video About The History of SCD1 research Posted at r/SaturatedFat | This was posted by a user of the reddit group r/SaturatedFat. This is a great … | Podcasts |
| February 21, 2021 | Bear Hunting Season; Native Americans Hunted Bear When The PUFA Content Was Lowest | Introduction This is a followup to my post Native Americans Removed Acorn Oil and Replaced … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| February 17, 2021 | Lori’s Story | Lori reached out to me wanting to share her story. She initially sent me this … | Testimonials |
| February 15, 2021 | The Body Fat Saturation Of Starch Eaters; Linoleic Acid Dysregulates SCD1 | I’ve argued in The SCD1 Theory of Obesity Part One and Part Two, as well … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| February 4, 2021 | Native Americans Removed Acorn Oil and Replaced It With Bear Fat | Introduction In a previous article, I argued that a recent drop in the body temperatures … | The Croissant Diet, The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| February 2, 2021 | Low Carb MD | They really let anyone on podcasts these days! Listen to Brad join obesity clinic doctors … | Podcasts |
| February 2, 2021 | Speed Your Metabolism With Oxidative Stress! Slow It With Antioxidants! | It’s rare to find a scientific paper whose RESULTS are hilarious. Sometimes the authors conclusions … | Intro To Oxidation, The Croissant Diet, The ROS Theory of Obesity, The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| January 30, 2021 | This is Your Body Temperature on Vegetable Oil | Introduction This article suggests that the reason the Tsimane people of Bolivia experienced a significant, … | The Croissant Diet, The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| December 15, 2020 | Brad Talking SCD1 Theory of Obesity with Raphael Sirtoli | World premiere SCD1 … | Podcasts, The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| December 15, 2020 | New List of Additional SCD1 Regulators posted at r/SaturatedFat | There is a great discussion thread for Croissant Diet/ROS Theory of Obesity/SCD1 Theory of Obesity … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| December 9, 2020 | Pu’erh Tea is a potent Suppressor of SCD1 | Katie sent me this paper.1 It actually adds an interesting twist to her story that … | The Croissant Diet, The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| December 3, 2020 | Dietary Monounsaturated Fat, The SCD1 Theory of Obesity, Part 3 | Introduction This is the third part of my SCD1 Theory of Obesity series. Here are … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| November 16, 2020 | The SCD1 Theory of Obesity Part 2 – The Post Obese Metabolism and What You Can Do About It | AKA The Ros Theory of Obesity Part2, Part 2 Introduction In part 1, I explained … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| November 16, 2020 | The SCD1 Theory of Obesity, Part 1 – Insulin, Leptin, SCD1 and Thermogenesis | AKA The ROS Theory of Obesity Part 2, Part 1 Introduction In The ROS Theory … | The SCD1 Theory Of Obesity |
| October 24, 2020 | Brad on Ben Greenfield! | The podcast is out! Excellent chat with Ben. Check it … | Podcasts |
| October 24, 2020 | Brad’s Inflammation Blood Test Numbers – Don’t Conflate Inflammation and ROS! | So I do everything wrong, kind of on purpose. I eat white flour and dairy. … | The Croissant Diet |
| October 21, 2020 | Kirsten’s TCD Post | Kirsten Mortenson, a novelist, posted a nice writeup of her experience with TCD after almost … | Testimonials |
| October 20, 2020 | Podcasts! | I’ve had a busy summer of recording podcasts! There are hours of me blathering on … | Podcasts |
| October 20, 2020 | Katie’s Story | Katie is doing a textbook version of TCD. I love her story, it’s honest and … | Testimonials |
| October 19, 2020 | James’ Story | James posted his success with TCD on Reddit. I reached out to see if he … | Testimonials |
| September 15, 2020 | Butter May Lower LPS Mediated Inflammation Compared to Olive Oil | While recording a podcast with Ben Greenfield, I was discussing how the French, Tibetan yak … | The Croissant Diet |
| August 8, 2020 | Emmy’s Story | Emmy reached out to me and thanked me for publishing The Croissant Diet. She said … | Testimonials, The Croissant Diet |
| August 6, 2020 | Feasting Mimicking Diet Trial Results Part 1 | I completed the first ten rounds – 20 days – of the Feasting Mimicking Diet … | The Croissant Diet |
| July 27, 2020 | Pancake Chicken | Pancake chicken is the second (and final) component of my feast meal during my test … | The Croissant Diet |
| July 23, 2020 | Fat Bomb Fries | It’s not by chance that I’m publishing this on July 23rd, 2020, 30 years to … | The Croissant Diet |
| July 17, 2020 | The Feasting Mimicking Diet | When I initially published The Croissant Diet (TCD) some said that it wasn’t “very scientific”. … | The Croissant Diet |
| May 30, 2020 | Announcing Firebrand Meats Low PUFA Pork CSA | We are pleased to announce the formation of Firebrand Meats! This is a brand new … | Meat Science |
| March 26, 2020 | When Life Gives You Pig Heads, Use Them To Boost Your Antioxidant System | I help my friend Devon with catering. He has a pig farm and does pig … | In The Kitchen, Intro To Oxidation, Meat Science |
| March 25, 2020 | Oxidative Balance: A Simple Regulatory Loop | For the background material on understanding this post, start with Hydrogen Peroxide Flips The Switch. … | Intro To Oxidation |
| March 24, 2020 | Hydrogen Peroxide Flips the Switch | For background information on this post, start by reading the introduction to oixdation. Terms you … | Intro To Oxidation |
| March 13, 2020 | Wine Fasting – TCD Redux, Part 2 | I knew from the original Croissant Diet trial that fasting was a natural outcome of … | The Croissant Diet |
| March 6, 2020 | Stearic Acid Macro-Dosing – TCD Redux, Part 1 | Many people have tried The Croissant Diet, or variations of it, since I published the … | In The Kitchen, The Croissant Diet |
| February 25, 2020 | Grassfed Beef Suet is an Excellent Source of Stearic Acid | Last summer when I first started experimenting with The Croissant Diet I had breakfast at … | In The Kitchen, Meat Science, The Croissant Diet |
| February 20, 2020 | Early Anecdotes – Lowered Blood Glucose and the First-Phase Insulin Response | An oversimplified version of the idea behind The ROS Theory of Obesity is that a … | The Croissant Diet |
| February 5, 2020 | The Illustrated Guide And Annotated Guide to The ROS Theory of Obesity | I gave a lecture on The ROS Theory Of Obesity at Interbrook Farm in Sept … | Intro To Oxidation, The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| January 22, 2020 | Fat From The Previous Meal Sets The Metabolic Table | After publication of The Croissant Diet, which promotes a diet combining highly saturated fat and … | The Croissant Diet, The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| January 6, 2020 | An Alternative Hypothesis For The Rise And Fall of Heart Disease In The US In The 20th Century | OR: An Ode To Vitamin K2 Summary It is still something of a mystery why … | Essays |
| December 19, 2019 | Disastrous Trends in American Bacon | In The Croissant Diet specification, I advise against the consumption of pork fat. This is … | Meat Science, The Croissant Diet |
| December 14, 2019 | Early TCD Anecdotes – Satiation | I published Introducing The Croissant Diet (TCD) on December 3rd and it’s now the 14th … | The Croissant Diet |
| December 13, 2019 | Another Way To Look At Macronutrients | Much of the science behind The Croissant Diet and The ROS Theory Of Obesity is … | The Croissant Diet |
| December 11, 2019 | The What’s, Why’s and Where’s of Fat | There are three basic kinds of fat, Saturated Fat (SFA), Monounsaturated Fat (MUFA) and Polyunsaturated … | The Croissant Diet |
| December 10, 2019 | New Subreddit for Discussing Hyperlipid/TCD Science and Experimentation r/SaturatedFat | A great spot to post your … | The Croissant Diet |
| December 3, 2019 | The Croissant Diet FAQ | Are you serious? Is this some type of ruse or joke? Of course it is!! … | The Croissant Diet |
| December 3, 2019 | The Croissant Diet Specification | The specification of The Croissant Diet is a living document. I plan to update it … | The Croissant Diet |
| December 3, 2019 | Introducing The Croissant Diet | OR: How I eliminated my spare tire by eating croissants using the six scariest words … | The Croissant Diet |
| September 27, 2019 | The Anti-French Diet | Most people seem surprised when I mention that America isn’t actually the fattest place on … | Armchair Epidemiology |
| September 27, 2019 | The French Diet In France | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides “Food Disappearance” data that … | Armchair Epidemiology |
| September 26, 2019 | The French Diet in Upstate New York | In my previous post I defined The French Diet as a diet where the staples … | Armchair Epidemiology |
| September 26, 2019 | The French Diet in China | In The ROS Theory of Obesity, I mentioned that the french remained lean in 1970 … | Armchair Epidemiology |
| September 25, 2019 | The Curious Case of Nanan and Huain | Another interesting finding of “Diet, Life-style and Mortality in China” is that there was a … | Armchair Epidemiology |
| September 25, 2019 | Chinese Office Workers Eat More Than Americans | In The ROS Theory Of Obesity I stated without providing evidence that Chinese people in … | Armchair Epidemiology |
| September 2, 2019 | The Three Countries Study | At the beginning of this series I stated that any theory of obesity should be … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | ROS is Satiation | Satiation is a feeling that is actually triggered in the brain by specific neurons in … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | The Body Fat of Obese Adults is Highly Unsaturated | This paper measured the level of Stearoyl-CoA desaturase in morbidly obese adults compared to adults … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | The Loss of SCD1 Prevents Obesity in Mice | A “knockout mouse” is a strain of mice in which a section of their DNA … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | Butter Causes a High Level of Available Energy 8 Hours After a Meal | When fat cells respond to insulin they take several actions in switching from fat burning … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | Long Chain Saturated Fat Causes Fat Loss in Mice | If you’ve been reading along you know that by this point we’ve shown that long … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | The Amount of Polyunsaturated fat in the Modern American Diet Fattens up Mice Without Additional Calories | In this series we’ve discussed the fact that saturated fat oxidation leads to ROS production … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | Unsaturated Fat Prevents Physiological Insulin Resistance In Humans | This paper studied the effect of a ketogenic diet composed largely of saturated fat compared … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | Saturated Fat Causes Physiological Insulin Resistance in Humans | In previous posts I have laid out the argument that metabolism of long chain saturated … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | This Is What Fat Burning Looks Like | In this series I often mention that mitochondrial ROS production creates physiological insulin resistance which … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | Physiological Insulin Resistance | Let’s think about what happens in response to a starchy meal. Blood sugar rises and … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | A Highly Conserved Molecular Bottleneck | In the introductory series, we first saw an example of ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species) as … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | The Mitochondria | A mitochondria works like a battery. It maintains a voltage gradient across its inner-membrane. The … | Intro To Oxidation, The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| September 2, 2019 | The ROS Theory of Obesity | AKA The Layperson’s Guide to Hyperlipid This series is going to be exploring the root … | The ROS Theory of Obesity |
| June 23, 2019 | Two Elegant Experiments Demonstrating that ROS is The Signal | If you’been reading through the Introduction to Fire in a Bottle series, I explained the … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 22, 2019 | Summary of The Introduction to Life in a Bottle | Oxidation (in a biological context) is the flow of electrons from elements like Hydrogen and … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 22, 2019 | Superoxide: An Unlikely Hero | When I took oncology at Cornell in the mid-90’s, the root cause of cancer was … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 18, 2019 | The Great Oxygenation | The primordial atmosphere of the earth didn’t contain Oxygen (O2). The atmosphere was a “reducing … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 18, 2019 | Meet Your Antioxidant System | In the previous post, we introduced our unlikely hero superoxide, a free radical. We also … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 17, 2019 | Fire In a Bottle | Fire is a positive feedback loop where atmospheric oxygen (O2) oxidizes the hydrocarbon bonds (the … | Intro To Oxidation |
| June 15, 2019 | A Very Gentle Introduction to Oxidation | Humans are electrical creatures. Our basic biology is controlled by the movement of electrons. In … | Intro To Oxidation |